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an oyster shell on a beach
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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition

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A bloom of algae from up above
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What Exactly Is a Red Tide?

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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

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The Peninsula Valdes in Argentina was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1999. The site is home to important breeding populations of the endangered southern right whale (Eubalaena australis), southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), and southern sea
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Marine World Heritage Photo Gallery

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Dr. Rabalais speaking at a podium
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Dr. Nancy Rabalais: Troubled Waters in the Gulf of Mexico

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Microscopic beach dweller in the sand.
Video

Organisms Beneath the Sand

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This male dancing fiddler crab (Uca terpsichores) has built a sand “hood” at the entrance to his burrow, which he hopes will attract females to his humble abode—as if that big beautiful claw of his weren't enough!
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The Design of a Beautiful Weapon

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A screenshot from the video showing a fiddler crab with a large claw.
Video

Claws Out: Fiddler Crabs Do Battle

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A Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus) crawls on the forest floor.
Article

The Great Hermit Crab Migration

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A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest
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Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

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Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.
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Seaside Lichens

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Rough periwinkles sit on a bed of barnacles.
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Spirals in Time: A Walk at the Seashore

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